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Example sentences for: mistake

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The Washington Post leads with remarks by House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich and by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer to the effect that expanding Medicare coverage to include younger retirees would be a mistake.
If franchising is more efficient, the ESOP was a mistake, as were both conglomeration and the core-business focus.
The exception is beer expert Michael Jackson, the explanation being 1) he had the name first; 2) he's too drunk to realize; 3) no one would mistake a fat pretentious hop-head for the king of pop.
So referring to the USSR as “Russia” is a mistake on the order of calling the United Kingdom or Great Britain “England.”
I was remembering the rancor that followed two previous revisionist works on Vietnam--by Norman Podhoretz and Richard Nixon, to say nothing of Robert McNamara's 25-years-after-the-fact revelation that he'd made a little mistake back in the '60s.